Cops say Mato would have been a goner, but for flinching away just as the gun went off. Mato testified that he believed God moved the gun at the last second.

Then, when Mato collapsed to the floor of the construction site at Canal and Greenwich streets, Robinson and his son – the errant coffee go-fer in question – “beat me with their feet and fists,” he told jurors.

Mato was accosted after questioning why he didn’t get his change back from the go-fer, apprentice drywaller Gerard Martin, 22, who is Robinson’s son.

The father and son are on trial for charges including attempted murder, assault and possession of a weapon. Their lawyers are alleging that Mato was the aggressor – and threatened the pair with a drywall blade.